On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jim Vickroy <jim.vick...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> >> On 1/16/2013 11:41 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> On 16 Jan 2013 17:54, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >>> a = np.random.random_integers(0, 5, size=5) >> > >>> b = a.sort() >> > >>> b >> > >>> a >> > array([0, 1, 2, 5, 5]) >> > >> > >>> b = np.random.shuffle(a) >> > >>> b >> > >>> b = np.random.permutation(a) >> > >>> b >> > array([0, 5, 5, 2, 1]) >> > >> > How do I remember if shuffle shuffles or permutes ? >> > >> > Do we have a list of functions that are inplace? >> >> I rather like the convention used elsewhere in Python of naming in-place >> operations with present tense imperative verbs, and out-of-place operations >> with past participles. So you have sort/sorted, reverse/reversed, etc. >> >> Here this would suggest we name these two operations as either shuffle() >> and shuffled(), or permute() and permuted(). >> >> >> I like this (tense) suggestion. It seems easy to remember. --jv >> >> > > And another score for functions as verbs!
I don't thing the filled we discuss here is an action. The current ``fill`` is an inplace operation, operating on an existing array. ``filled`` would be the analog that returns a copy. However ``filled`` here is creating an object I still think ``array_filled`` is the most precise '''Create an array and initialize it with the ``value``, returning the array ''' my 2.5c Josef > > :-P > > Ben Root > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion